Word: fines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seemed like a fine time. She was out of school, hanging out in Greenwich Village, and Charlie Parker was teaching her to sing. "Not that Charlie Parker," Phoebe Snow says now, but still, this was a time of awakening. At the urging of Parker, her "first boyfriend," Snow was beginning to experiment with the crystalline grace of her four-octave voice, getting a grip on her crippling shyness, actually starting to perform. She made a debut album, she had a hit, she was on her way. Then her luck faded...
...With everyone studying the rankings and so caught up in that kind of stuff, obviously we do have our eye on bigger things," Walser said. "But the Ivy title is beautiful and fine and perfect for now. We have to take it one day at a time and not let our heads...
...late Will Durant, the Book-of-the-Month Club's ubiquitous historian, once observed that "no man who is in a hurry is quite civilized." Time bestows value because objects reflect the hours they absorb: the hand-carved table, the handwritten letter, every piece of fine craftsmanship, every grace note. But now we have reached the stage at which not only are the luxuries of time disappearing -- for reading meaty novels, baking from scratch, learning fugues, traveling by sea rather than air, or by foot rather than wheel -- but the necessities of time are also out of reach. Family time...
Last week all the accused lost. The jury found Walters and Bloom guilty of racketeering, conspiracy and mail fraud. Each faces up to 55 years in prison and a fine of up to $1.5 million. As for college athletics, it emerged with more of its idealistic luster tarnished -- just what it did not need after a bruising year of recruiting scandals and crackdowns by the National Collegiate Athletic Association...
...counsel Richard Phelan -- the kind of unsubstantiated innuendos that Republicans succeeded in keeping out of the public domain / during the Tower investigation. Wright will have 21 days in which to respond in writing. The committee will then decide if the case requires any action. If it recommends a fine, reprimand, censure or expulsion, the full House will vote...